Undergarment



s. A. HANSON. UND'ERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 7, 1920.

Patented May 30,1922;

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APPLICAIION FILED APR. 7. 1920.

Patented May 30, 1922.

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S. A. HANSON.

UNDERGARMENT.

' APPLICATION FILED APR. 1. 1920.

1,417,992. I Patentd May 30, 1922.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3- INVENTOR vm 7 ATTORNEYS UNETED STATES STANLEY A. HANSON, OIE BABNESVILLE, GEORGIA.

UNDERGARMENT.

Application filed April 7,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STANLEY A. HANsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Barnesville, in the county of Pike and State- -of Georgia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Undergarments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention has for its object the construction of a union undergarment wherein both the body portion and the inserted flaps to form the seat are so mutually arranged that there may be a minimum number of cutting operations and the entire article may be made from a single length of fabric with practically no waste. A further ob ject is the provision of a garment thus economically constructed, having the desirable ,features of a permanently closed crotch formed. of a single thickness of cloth, and a non-gapping seat having ample fullness to permit of free movement, and which may be closed by a single button or its equivalent.

The invention will be more fully hereinafter described, and the essential characteristics will be summarized in the claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a plan of-a length of tubular fabric for the production of a garment constructed according to my invention with the cuttings indicated. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Figs. 3 and 4c are front and rear views of the body cloth of Fig. 1 when unfolded; F ig. 5 is a view of the smaller flap when unfolded and cut for uniting with the body cloth; Fig. 6 shows the larger flap unfolded; Fig. 7 is a fragmentary vertical section through the crotch; Figs. 8 and 9 are fragmentary plan views in detail of the crotch and adjacent portions of the gar ment, as the same would appear were the garment split longitudinally on each side and the front and rear halves of the upper or body portion spread out in a common plane with the inner sides of the leg portions extending at right angles thereto, Fig. 8 showing the outer flap broken away to di close the small flap, and Fig; 9 indicating the two flaps in normal superposed posi tion; and Figs. 10 and 11 are front and rear views, respectively, of the finished garment,

In the drawings, referring particularly to Fig. 1, the numeral 10 designates the body of the garment which is preferably made Specification of Letters Patent. Pafivgniged Biay 3Q, 1922,

1920. Serial No. 371,896.

of tubular knit fabric in the usual manner. By cutting along the lines 13 and 14 the front and rear neck openings, respectively, of the finished garment maybe produced, while by cutting both thicknesses of the tubular fabric from the point 18 to the point 19 the sleeve openings 16 at the shoulders 17 may be made. The central lengthwise opening 20 in the front of the completed garment, having finished edges adapted to be closed by buttons and button holes, is provided by slitting the tubular fabric 10 from the point 21 down to the point 22, and by continuing the slit to the point 23the crotch opening 25 is provided To form the leg portions 11 from the body cloth 10 diagonal cuts are made along the lines 2324land. 28-29. The position and direction of these lines of severance are specially selected to leave pieceson the outer sides adapted for use as flap inserts, as

hereinafter explained. Between the point 29 and a point 30 above the waist line of the garment the tubular fabric is slit leaving edges 34 to. receive the flap inserts which are sewed in a manner hereinafter described. The portion 31 of the body cloth from the point 30 upward to the shoulders around the neck opening 14 is left uncutand constitutes what is known as backrise As above mentioned, the waste portions from the body cloth 10 after cutting along the lines 28-24 and 2829 to form the leg portions 11 as above described are so shaped that they-may be utilized in the construction of the scat flap inserts, which hereto fore have required the cutting of extra cloth or fabric. As shown in 1 these portions are triangular inshape and of unequal dimensions, the portion being somewhat more than twice as wide as the portion 36. Figs. 6 and 5 show the wide and narrow flaps respectively, after they are un folded. As shown also in Fig. 5, by cutting the portion 36 along the lines 37 and 38 the portions 39 and 40 may be removed, thus leaving the completed smaller flap 36 which is secured with the large flap to the body cloth 10 as hereinafter described.

In Figs. 7 to 11 the insert flaps 35 and are shown sewed to the body cloth. With this construction there is provided a closed.

seat union suit with a single thickness of material throughout the crotch, and with the large flap 35 overlapping the small one 36 and held in closed position by a single button 45 or its equivalent. As shown ill these figures the small. flap or insert 36 is sewed to the rear portion of the body cloth along the lines 5'l-52, 52-53 and 53-45%, the edge 88 being attached along the line 5152 slightly above the waistline, and the edge 37 along the line 5354lat one leg seam adjacent to the crotch. The line 5154l represents the open or unseamed edge of the small flap insert 86,

The large flap or covering cloth 35 is sewed to'the edges 34: of the body cloth along the line 65-52, 52 c0, eta-'33, 5a 54, and id-65, thus forming a permanently closed crotch of a single thickness of material and overlapping the small flap thereby prevent ing gapping. The curved line 6061 repre sents the free or unseamed edge of the large flap 35, which may be removably closed against the body cloth by'the single bu ton 45.

With my improved construction having the bases of triangular shaped flap inserts secured to the body cloth adjacent to the crotch and extending upwardly to a point above the waistline, the finished garment has ample elasticity and room for free seat and shoulder movement. The overlapping flaps prevent gapping, while the desirable features of a single thickness of cloth at the crotch and the one-button fastenin g for the outer flap are retained. By cutting the fabric as above described, whereby the waste from the body cloth may be utilized the flap inserts, a decided saving in the cost of material is efi'ected as well as a reduction in the expenditure of time and labor in cutti up; such flaps from extra cloth in the usual manner.

My invention includes both the garment herein illustrated and the method above described bywhich it may be economically made.

Having thus described my invention, T claim:

1.,The method of constructing a. union undergarment comprising taking a length of flattened tubular fabric, cutting unequal narzgeea extent longitudinally of the tube substantially equal to the extent of the legs to be formed,v sewing together the edges thus formed to constitute the legs, slitting 'the tube for a portion of the way up the center of the back, and the insertion of the triangular pieces between the leg portions and the edge of the slit in the bacltjto form overlapping sea-t flaps.

3. The method of constructing a union undergarment comprising taking a length of fabric, forming a body portion and leg portions therefrom by the removal of-unequal sized triangular flaps from the sides, in

serting the smaller flap between the body portion and one of the leg portions, and stitching it thereto with one edge left unseamed, and stitching the larger flap to the body portion and to both leg portions with such flap overlapping the smaller flap and with a central portion only of one edge remaining unseamed, and stitching edges, formed by cutting out the flaps, together to form legs.

4!. In the construction of a union under garment having a body portion, leg portions formed therefrom by the removal of a tri angular flap from each side, said flaps having different widths of base, the smaller flap being inserted between the body portion and oneof the leg portions and stitched thereto with one edge left unseamed, the larger flap being stitched to the body portion and to both leg portions and overlapping the smaller flap, with a portion only of one edge remaining unseamed, and a single fastening means between said .unseamed edge and the body portion being provided.

5. The construction of union undergarments from tubular fabric, comprising the formation of legs for the body portion thereof by the removal of triangular portions co-extensive longitudinally with the leg portions and the utilization of one of such triangular portions by securing it in a flaring opening at the rear of thebody portion and extending it to the front to form the crotchclosure.

6. The method of making undergarments which comprises creasing a tubular fabric along two edges, making two rectilinear cuts intersectingthe end and one ereasededge of said fabric, one of said cuts being made at a greater inclination; to the end than the other out, sewing the edges so formed on op- STANLEY nnANsoN. 

